Haiku

a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

Example: Leave gracefully dance (5)

As if the wind tickles them (7)

Whoosh! The wind sings only. (5)

Acrostic

a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.

Example:

Steve the Snowman

Nose made from a carrot

Orange and bright on a dark wintery night

Wearing a warm wooly scarf

Melting

All alone

Now he is gone

Sonnet

a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. The last word must rhyme with another with this format. “ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG”

Example:

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; (A)
Coral is far more red than her lips' red; (B)
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; (A)
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. (B)

I have seen roses damasked, red and white, (C)
But no such roses see I in her cheeks; (D)
And in some perfumes is there more delight (C)
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. (D)

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know (E)
That music hath a far more pleasing sound; (F)
I grant I never saw a goddess go; (E)
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. (F)

And yet, by heaven, I think my love is rare (G)
As any, she belied with false compare. (G)

Limerick

A limerick is a five-line poem that consists of a single stanza, an AABBA rhyme scheme, and whose subject is a short, pithy tale or description.

Example:

Santa’s little helper felt poorly sick (A)

Couldn’t deliver presents for Saint Nick (A)

His red nose was gleaming (B)

Blue eyes they were streaming (B)

I hope that Santa will give him some Vick (A)

Free Verse

Free verse is an open form of poetry, which in its modern form arose through the French vers libre form.

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